I am Centre co-director (Digital Cultures), and Associate Dean (Research Cultures) in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. In the Edinburgh Futures Institute, I am co-director of the MSc in Education Futures. I also teach on the MSc in Digital Education, and I am a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy. My research interests include education and cultural heritage futures, speculative methods, online distance education, digital cultural heritage learning, open education and digital cultures. I supervise masters and PhD students in these and related areas.
Professor Jen Ross
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A new free online course on AI and Education led by Centre colleagues will start on the 16th February 2026.
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Watch the recording of the seminar "Exploring hybrid teaching through a lens of choreography" with James Lamb, Joe Noteboom and Jen Ross as speakers.
Sharing findings and working with scenarios from the Infrastructure Futures for Digital Cultural Heritage project
Read this update on the Infrastructure Futures for Digitial Cultural Heritage project.
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Projects
KIX-EMAP Learning Cycle on AI and Education
An online course based at NORRAG focusing on the implications of current and emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies on practice, curriculum, policy and governance in education.
Collaboration with Professors Without Borders around Futures Thinking
Professors Without Borders (Prowibo) is a UK registered charity that works to support equitable access to quality edu
Artificial Intelligence & Humanities (101): Developing a Humanities Syllabus for AI & the Digital at Una Europa
Identifying how students in Higher Education can be prepared to take part in the digital transformation of the Humanities, and how Una Europa institutions can achieve this objective.
Towards embedding responsible AI in the school system: co-creation with young people
Bridging the divide between principles of explainability, fairness and privacy as they apply to educational AI, and the values, hopes and concerns of young people when faced with emerging technologies.
AI futures for Scottish education
AI Futures for Scottish education addresses an urgent need to address the rapid emergence of generative AI technologies, and to consider the ethical and educational issues raised as teachers and students experiment with its capabilities
Infrastructure Futures for Digital Cultural Heritage
What do we mean when we talk about infrastructure for Digital Cultural Heritage research? How can we get a better understanding of current priorities, concerns and hopes by imagining and collectively scrutinising possibilities for the future?